From: Nicholas Harring <nharring@hostway.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: "Pedro M. Rodrigues" <pmanuel@myrealbox.com>,
chen_xiangping@emc.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:51:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CDBEC6A.9020600@hostway.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FA2F59D0E55B4B4892EA076FF8704F553D1A42@srgraham.eng.emc.com> <3CDBFF5B.32550.1364FB2@localhost> <3CDBE7EB.9060605@mandrakesoft.com>
And how about when an SMP system isn't enough? Should I have to
re-engineer my network storage architecture when hardware exists that'll
increase throughput if a simple device driver gets written? Don't forget
that with 64 bit PCI that the limit of the bus has been raised, and with
impending technologies like Infiniband and Hypertransport that limit
will be raised again. At that point devoting main processor resources to
something better handled by specialty hardware really stops making
sense, if that specialty hardware is low-cost (oughta be) and effective
(still debatable).
Nicholas Harring
Hostway Corporation
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Pedro M. Rodrigues wrote:
>
>> Actually there is. Think iSCSI. Have a look at this article at
>> LinuxJournal - http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4896 .
>>
>
> Ug... why bother? Just buy an SMP system at that point...
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-10 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-10 14:48 Tcp/ip offload card driver chen, xiangping
2002-05-10 14:43 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-10 15:11 ` Pedro M. Rodrigues
2002-05-10 15:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-10 16:59 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-05-11 22:23 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-05-10 15:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-05-10 15:51 ` Nicholas Harring [this message]
2002-05-10 15:49 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-10 16:04 ` Nicholas Harring
2002-05-10 16:09 ` Joel Jaeggli
2002-05-12 0:55 ` john slee
2002-05-12 17:36 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-05-10 18:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-10 16:02 ` Mark Hahn
2002-05-10 15:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-05-10 15:07 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-11 1:53 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-05-12 2:56 ` David S. Miller
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2002-05-10 17:36 Nivedita Singhvi
[not found] <mailman.1021046154.26338.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-05-10 17:55 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-05-10 17:46 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-10 18:39 Nivedita Singhvi
2002-05-10 21:43 Woodruff, Robert J
[not found] <mailman.1021067221.3300.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-05-12 2:46 ` Pete Zaitcev
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205121335050.14675-100000@filesrv1.baby-dra gons.com>
2002-05-12 22:26 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-05-13 16:17 Woodruff, Robert J
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